# When was the last time you laughed uncontrollably? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222 "2010-07-19T14:13:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/41 "2010-07-22T02:10:35Z")
Last night I laughed until my stomach hurt and my eyes were streaming tears at this thread here: [Catching Pinworms-- Is This True?! (TMI...Not for the Squeamish) - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=233980) . Especially post #28 by Cervaise in response to “I wonder why they only come out at night?”. I read it all again this morning and laughed just as much. I also loved certain parts of Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Starting from when Helen comes to stay with Madea, they bust through the security gates and all the way through to when she and Madea get put in jail. Another place to get some really great laughs is by reading the best of Craigs List found here: [http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/](http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/) There are some seriously funny and crazy people out there in the world. Ain’t it fun??? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/42 "2010-07-22T02:53:36Z")
My last real laughing fit was seeing _Up_ in the theater. When Alpha first spoke, I laughed myself sick. ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/43 "2010-07-22T03:08:15Z")
Just thought of something else - I’ve been laughing about this for 2 years now. My ex-BF was the biggest procrastinator ever born. Still is or so I hear. Anyway late one Saturday evening one of our toilets stopped up, thanks to him. He tried the plunger thing but no results. THEN a few hours later the other toilet started backing up. Serious problems obviously. The next morning I woke up to find him gone. I called him on his cell phone to see if he was out trying to find a solution to our problem. He’d gone fishing! Needless to say, I was furious, shouting things like “What am I supposed to do, go squat out in the yard with the dogs?” At that exact moment I had a mental vision of both of us doing just that out in the front yard with my mini schnauzer and australian cattle dog with the neighbors driving by. I started howling, laughing uncontrollably which made him madder and madder and I laughed harder and harder! He has no sense of humor… ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/44 "2010-07-22T03:09:07Z")
I laughed so hard I honked on Monday night. I have no idea any more what I was laughing at, just that I was doing the most ridiculous nerd laugh you can imagine, and I could not stop. ---
**Author:** ![Waffle\_Decider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/45 "2010-07-22T03:16:18Z")
This happens to me occasionally while perusing FAIL Blog. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/46 "2010-07-22T04:09:35Z")
I also have the occasional giggle fit while reading [failblog.org](http://failblog.org), especially late at night when I’m tired and punchy. But for real, honest to goodness, uncontrollable, couldn’t stop if I wanted to, rolling on the floor laughing, I can only think of two instances. The most recent was the first time I did 'shrooms, junior year of college, 8 or 9 years ago. We were watching something funny on TV, and whatever it was caused me to completely lose it. It was so bad that my friends started to ask if I was ok; the only response I could muster between howls was, “Yes … I’m fine … I’m fine,” but if I was able to be coherent I would have said, “_Of course_ I’m ok: I’m _laughing_! Can’t you see that I’m having the time of my life?” The other time was as a freshman in high school, so about 16 years ago. I had to design and build a [Rube Goldberg machine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine) for biology class. Naturally I put it off until the last minute, so the day before it was due my father and I went to the hardware store to get some supplies and started working on it sometime before noon. Later that night, after innumerable false starts, bad ideas, and arguments, the only thing we’d accomplished was to glue together three foam boards into a half-cube shape. While we sat in annoyed silence trying to figure out where to go from here, I looked at the clock, chuckled, pointed at the boards and said, “9 hours” … at which point all of the day’s tension dissolved into a 5 minute fit of laughing at our own ridiculousness and incompetence. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/47 "2010-07-22T08:36:38Z")
Earlier today, when I saw this video of a [cat mosh pit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQSoMakoIU&feature=player_embedded). ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/48 "2010-07-22T08:44:56Z")
I said “park the car, I gotta fart” in a Boston accent. The driver had to pull over because he couldn’t drive through the tears of laughter, and him cracking up made me crack up. That lasted a good five solid minutes. I really don’t know what was so funny now that I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/49 "2010-07-22T14:56:24Z")
Preface: I’m weird. Part of my weirdness is I like thinking about imaginary creatures. Earlier in the week my husband had asked me how I felt, and I replied, ‘‘Snail.’’ Argument about whether an animal can be an emotion ensues. Last night, it’s late, we’re both in bed, and I’m feeling goofy. We’re almost to the point where we’re falling asleep and we’re both definitely harassing each other hard-core through our sleep-induced fog. **Me** : \ octopus. **Him** : You _are_ an octopus. **Me** : What? I thought you said I can’t be an animal. **Him** : No, I said emotions can’t be animals. **Me** : Don’t you mean animals can’t be emotions? Wait, no, I like it. What if emotions _were_ animals? _starts trying to think of what various emotions would be like if they were represented by imaginary creatures_ **Him** : NO! _realizes what he’s started, groans_ **Me** : What, for example, is ‘‘sad’’? **Him** : Anyone trying to have a rational conversation with _you_. The exasperation in his voice, the complete and utter lack of hesitation… I collapsed. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/50 "2010-07-22T15:50:17Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Preface: I’m weird. Part of my weirdness is I like thinking about imaginary creatures. Earlier in the week my husband had asked me how I felt, and I replied, ‘‘Snail.’’ Argument about whether an animal can be an emotion ensues. > > Last night, it’s late, we’re both in bed, and I’m feeling goofy. We’re almost to the point where we’re falling asleep and we’re both definitely harassing each other hard-core through our sleep-induced fog. > > **Me** : \ octopus. > **Him** : You _are_ an octopus. > **Me** : What? I thought you said I can’t be an animal. > **Him** : No, I said emotions can’t be animals. > **Me** : Don’t you mean animals can’t be emotions? Wait, no, I like it. What if emotions _were_ animals? _starts trying to think of what various emotions would be like if they were represented by imaginary creatures_ > **Him** : NO! _realizes what he’s started, groans_ > **Me** : What, for example, is ‘‘sad’’? > **Him** : Anyone trying to have a rational conversation with _you_. > > The exasperation in his voice, the complete and utter lack of hesitation… I collapsed. If it makes you feel better when I animalize “sad” what comes to mind for me is a jelly fish. Speaking of imaginary creatures, yesterday the SO and I were laying in bed and I stuck both of my hands together and wiggled all 10 fingers over his neck. He looked up and said, “What the hell are you doing?” and my response was, “Cthulu noms.” He laughed so hard he almost fell out of the bed. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/51 "2010-07-22T15:57:12Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > If it makes you feel better when I animalize “sad” what comes to mind for me is a jelly fish. > > Speaking of imaginary creatures, yesterday the SO and I were laying in bed and I stuck both of my hands together and wiggled all 10 fingers over his neck. He looked up and said, “What the hell are you doing?” and my response was, “Cthulu noms.” He laughed so hard he almost fell out of the bed. We must do lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/52 "2010-07-22T16:06:36Z")
Mrs. R and I got the giggles a while ago while she was describing an inspiration she’d had–something about using steel hats and big electromagnets instead of elevators. So you’d turn on the electromagnet at the top of the elevator shaft to go up–whoosh, CLANK–and then turn it off to go down–THUMP. Clank THUMP Clank THUMP and about there we both got to giggling so hard we couldn’t talk any more. As soon as one of us caught our breath, the other would say “Clank THUMP”, and off we’d go again. We also busted a gut at that preposterous scene in **Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus** where the shark leaps out of the water and bites an airliner in half and just sat there whooping for a while. ---
**Author:** ![moldybread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@moldybread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moldybread)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/53 "2010-07-22T16:31:53Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > First time I ever saw Jim Gaffigan’s [Hot Pockets](http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4653268/12437422) bit. > > Saw him live in Toronto a year or two ago, and he was awesome. I distinctly remember thinking at one point that I had to get a hold of myself, or I’d throw up. Yes loved that bit. Had me quite literally about to spew from the pains of laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/54 "2010-07-22T16:37:55Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > We also busted a gut at that preposterous scene in **Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus** where the shark leaps out of the water and bites an airliner in half and just sat there whooping for a while. I have that movie permanently saved to DVR just for that scene. _Rock, Paper, Saddam_ had me in tears, although I didn’t like the second one much, as did the [Very Secret Diaries](http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/) (and I’m not even really an LOTR fan). I think the last time I laughed out loud for more than a second at a stand-up comic was during the Chris Rock “new pussy” bit in his first HBO special. ---
**Author:** ![moldybread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@moldybread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moldybread)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/55 "2010-07-22T16:38:32Z")
> [@moldybread](#): > > Yes loved that bit. Had me quite literally about to spew from the pains of laughter. Edit: just watched it again and the line “There is a vegetarian hot pocket, for those of us who dont want to eat meat, but still would like Diahrea” got me going. The worst part is im in a quiet office trying to hold it back, which as you know makes it ten times worse :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/56 "2010-07-22T20:29:49Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > The last time was at RFK stadium in June 1992. My friends and I were in the parking lot prior to a Dead show. Steve Miller was playing, we were all dosed to our eyebrows and then suddenly out of nowhere these guys come all bustling into our private tripping enclave, yelling and shouting. Turns out it was a cadre of cops that had hustled some black guy into our area and detained him for selling fake mushrooms out of a yellow plastic phone book bag. > > The whole thing struck me as so preposterous. The cops were dressed like Deadheads. They zip-tied the black dude and led him away, mocking him for being arrested selling fake stuff. > > Deadheads that saw what happened started following the cops around, pointing and shouting “Narcs!” at them. I started shaking and laughing so hard at the questionable reality of it all. > > Later, while walking, I got lost and was just awash in a moving sea of humanity, I see this police car slowly cruising through the crowd and some Deadhead just bursts out of the crowd with an unopened beer and just hurls the thing at the cop car. The cops (likely expecting such a thing), sprang from their cruiser with remarkable speed and immediately started chasing the guy into the crowd with catcalls of “Arrest the guy in the tie-dye!” > > So I lost it all over again. Soon, a very earnest and desperate looking hippie tried to sell me a magic rock for a dollar. I declined and gave him a fiver instead, but I felt bad because I laughed at him as I did so. > > I could not stop laughing. I saw a girl giving some dude in the restroom a honking good blow job amidst a circle of about 50 guys cheering her on. I didn’t laugh then…I wanted to pee and the bathroom was overcrowded. > > Got offered a veggie burrito for a dollar…laughed some more. > > Found my friends, did some balloons, went into the show. Casey Jones ensued. I was no longer laughing, just visually entranced. The music was secondary to me. > > I suppose I could just have said “the last time I ate acid” instead! > > 😃 Sweet Jesus. Imagine the same scene (Dead Concert, audience members stoned out of their gourds). As we’re leaving the concert one of the many many vendors lining the exit paths suddenly opened his trenchcoat to reveal a ton of pockets with photos in them. “Totally organic pictures of Jerry, man!”.To this day, all I have to do is say that phrase to my husband and both of us collapse in laughter. Yes, you had to be there. More recently, I was watching the comedian Ralphie May do his 'cuba diving routine. Literally on. the. floor. laughing. And just this morning (from 2:00 - 5:00), I couldn’t sleep so I was reading ‘Shit My Father Says’ and literally crying with laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Hazel\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ms.Hazel\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Hazel_Ice)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/57 "2010-07-23T03:32:49Z")
Around March, I go through a manic period trying to give my sophomore classes last minute preparations for the state exam that they must pass to graduate. I usually pull some poetry examples from previous years, and on one particular day, I selected “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” After asking the students to write a short response, I called on one student who proceeded to read, “In the poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Child,’ there are images such as…” “Wait,” I interrupted him. “Can you read that again?” He read the line again, reading “child” instead of “cloud.” He proceeded to read it and it occured to me that he read the entire poem that way, having this depressing image of a lonely little kid, lost and alone. I lost it. Seriously. In front of a room of 20 fifteen-year-old honors students, I started laughing hysterically, hyperventilating. I finally had to walk over to the desk in the room, sit, and put my head down. They were all laughing because I was laughing. I’d stop, inhale deeply and prepare to move on, then someone would snicker, and I was back to laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. Finally, the door to the classroom next door opened. My department head was trying instruct her class next door and clearly heard the hysterical laughter. She surveyed the room, noting that I was red-faced, trying to breathe and keep my eyeliner from running, and the students were in various states of hysterics. “So,” she ventured, “what exactly is going on in here?” I shook my head, still trying to catch my breath. A girl closest to the door finally answered: “We’re reviewing poetry for MCAS.” “Uh-huh,” Department Head answered, and closed the door slowly. It was even more fun trying to explain the ruckus during lunch. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/58 "2010-07-23T06:47:52Z")
IIRC, the first three times I read **Scylla’s** “The Horror of Blimps”. Which was about 4 or 5 years ago. I laugh a lot, all of the time, but that’s the last time I can remember the “laughing so hard I can’t breathe and I’m crying” kind of laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/59 "2010-07-23T08:30:36Z")
Watching a stand-up comedian. He was good in general, very fluid. He also had a schtick where he’d occasionally translate a word “for those who studied under LOGSE” (think NCLB, they’re actually pretty similar). “… the doctor told me I had hepatitis (for the LOGSE folk: I had a bad liver, the liver is a body part, it’s here _points to his liver_) and then…” It was completely silly, but for some reason by the third time he did it I was giggling before he even gave the translation. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222/60 "2010-07-23T13:28:31Z")
About 2 years ago. I had abstained from smoking weed for a few months when a friend and I lit up a joint. We proceeded to play a game of chess, and about 2 moves in I took my own pawn. I was so stoned I didn’t realize why my friend was laughing his ass off. When he calmed down enough to explain it to me, the hilarity hit me pretty damn hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-laughed-uncontrollably/547222.md?page=4)